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Interpreter of Maladies
“So I wrote Interpreter of Maladies; that was my first book. I called it that — I heard the title in this strange flash.”
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Jhumpa Lahiri
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The Last Diary
“These writings were collected in a book called The Last Diary, which I read. They’re almost like little fragments, epigrams, some of these little entries.”
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The Great Gatsby
“I read The Great Gatsby that year. And the following year I was introduced to Hardy, who has become so important to me as well.”
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Not about who he is but maybe how we project, how we like to project sameness onto other people to make them more comfortable to us and to dilute the sense of difference.
“Not about who he is but maybe how we project, how we like to project sameness onto other people to make them more comfortable to us and to dilute the sense of difference.”
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- Jhumpa Lahiri
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Of course the difference between her and myself is that she always had an antagonistic relationship with French, even though she went out of her way to learn it and to express herself in it because she was living in Switzerland, and she felt that she couldn’t really function as a writer without expressing herself in French.
“Of course the difference between her and myself is that she always had an antagonistic relationship with French, even though she went out of her way to learn it and to express herself in it because she was living in Switzerland, and she felt that she couldn’t really function as a writer without expressing herself in French.”
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- Conversations with Tyler
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You know, there’re so many books now about grief and the loss of a loved one and what that means.
“You know, there’re so many books now about grief and the loss of a loved one and what that means.”
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If I didn’t have this response to literature, then these writers wouldn’t have fed and inspired me the way they did because there would’ve been a “barrier” between their experiences and their times and mine, and that shouldn’t be the case.
“If I didn’t have this response to literature, then these writers wouldn’t have fed and inspired me the way they did because there would’ve been a “barrier” between their experiences and their times and mine, and that shouldn’t be the case.”
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- Jhumpa Lahiri
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- Conversations with Tyler